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Transactions

Transactions of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul is a peer reviewed series that publishes monographs and collections of scholarly works such as conference proceedings.

After a process of peer-reviewing of submitted manuscripts, the editorial committee accepts contributions in English on the MENA region, Turkey and Central Asia within the fields of Social and Human Sciences. The committee consists of scholars from the universities of Södertörn, Lund, and Uppsala that represents the different fields of interest covered by the series. Scholars interested in publishing their work in this series can contact the scientific editor of the journal (link) for further information on the procedures and guidelines.

AcknowledgementsForewordIntroductionChapter 1, Just a Servant of God - Conversation with Adnan Oktar/Harun YahyaChapter 2, A Qur’anic Metaphysics for Science and a Common Ground for Monotheistic Religions - Conversation with Mehdi GolshaniChapter 3, Paving the Way for the Reformation of Islam - Conversation with Mohammed Basil AltaieChapter 4, There Can Be Many Deviations from This Main Straight Path - Conversation with Zaghloul R. M. El-NaggarChapter 5, It is Light and Darkness - Conversation with Bruno Abd-al-Haqq GuiderdoniChapter 6, A Reconstruction of the Two Sides - Conversation with Nidhal GuessoumAfterthoughtsGlossary - by Dr Tauseef Ahmad Parray (Aligarh Muslim University, India)

Part II4. L. Peirce, Becoming Ottoman in 16th Century Aintab5. N. Lafi, Petitions and Accommodating Urban Change in the Ottoman Empire6. V. Kechriotis, Contesting the Imperial Centre: Political Elites in Smyrna and their rivalry with Istanbul7. F. Tansug, Istanbul and the Aegean Islands: Imroz in the mid-19th Century

Part III8. M. Boqvist, Visualising the Ottoman Presence in Damascus: Interpreting 16th Century Building Complexes9. H. Kayali, A Glimpse from the Periphery; Medina in the Young Turk Era10. A. Rahim Abu Husayn, One Ottoman Periphery Views Another: Depictions of the Balkans in the Beirut Press, 1876-1908

Part IV11. T. Rooke, Nostalgia, Admiration and Critique: Istanbul in Arabic Travel Accounts from the Early 20th Century12. S. Zubaida, Iraqi Memoirs of Ottomans and Arabs: Ma’ruf al-Rusafi and Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi13. M. Fazlhashemi, Istanbul’s Intellectual Environment and Iranian Scholars of the Early Modern Period

Government and Democracy in Middle Eastern and European Perspectives

eds. Elisabeth Özdalga and Sune Persson ISBN 9789197881302

Contents:1. E. Özbudun, Turkey’s Constitutional Problem and the Search for a New Constitution2. L. Köker, Contesting “Sovereignty”: Turkey’s Constitutional Problem in the Light of New Conceptualizations3. V. Kechriotis, The Second Constitutional Period of the Ottoman Empire: A Disputed Legacy4. I. Sunar, Turkey, the Cultural Factor and the European Union5. O. Petersson, The Swedish Constitution of 18096. D. Mukhopadhyay, Ambition and Retreat: State-Building in Afghanistan and the Persistence of Informal Power7. S. Darnolf, Pakistan’s Justice Sector: Defending or Diluting the Constitution?8. S. Zubaida, Role and Strength of Institutions: the Contrasting Cases of Iran and Iraq9. E. Picard, Consensus Democracy at its Limits: Lebanon in Search of Electoral Reform10. S. Persson, Ruling with or without a Constitution: Israel and Palestine11. A-K. Jonasson, Is Monarchy Compatible with Democracy? The Constitutional framework and Royal Initiatives for Democracy in Jordan12. C. Hassabo, When Constitutional Amendments Mean Authoritarian Consolidation: The Case of Egypt.13. F. Kohstall, Morocco’s Monarchical Legacy and its Capacity to Implement Social Reforms14. S. Gustavsson, European Transnational Constitutionalism: End of History, or a Role for Legitimate Opposition?

Contextual, Constructed and Contested

eds. Adrian Marsh & Elin Strand ISBN 91-86884-17-4

Contents:E. Strand and A. Marsh, In Memoriam: The Scholarship of Nabil Sobhi Hanna and Angus Fraser1. T Acton, Romani Politics, Scholarship, and the Discourse of Nation-building: Romani Studies in 20032. A. Marsh, “…the strumming of their silken bows” The Firdausi Legend of Bahram Gür in the Context of Narratives of Origin in Romani Histories3. P. Polansky, Using Oral Histories and Customs of the Kosovo Roma as a Guide to their Origins4. I. Hancock, On Romany Origins and Identity – Questions for Discussion5. V. Novoselsky, European Roma in the State of Israel6. E. Strand, Romanlar and Ethno-Religious Identity in Turkey: A Comparative Perspective7. M. Özünal, Makus Ma! Me de Rom Sinom! Images of8. Gypsies in the Turkish lands 19. E. Hansen and K. Johansson, The Cultural Heritage of the Roma and Resande represented in the Malmö Museer10. I. Cederberg, The International Romani Writers Association11. S. Bladh, The Abdals of Sulukule Images of Gypsies in the Turkish lands 212. S. Kolukirik, Perceptions of Identity Amongst the Tarlabasi Gypsies, Izmir13. E. Sobotka, Human Rights and Policy Formulation towards the Roma in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary14. U. Mischek, Mahalle Identity – Roman (Gypsy) Identity under Urban Conditions15. A. Oprisan, An Overview of the Romanlar in Turkey16. A. Marsh, Ottoman Gypsies and Taxation: A comment on Cantemir’s “…about the Gypsy people, who are numerous in the Turkish country”17. B. Streck, Nabil Sobhi Hanna: A Personal Reflection18. E. Marushiakova and V. Popov, The Turkish Gypsies in the Balkans and the Countries of Former Soviet Union19. E. Onaran Incirlioglu, Where exactly is Çinçin Baglari?20. A. Williams, The Current Situation of the Dom in Jordan R. Benninghaus, Afterword

Vol. 16 (2006) The Last Dragoman

The Swedish Orientalist Johannes Kolmodin as Scholar, Activist, and Diplomat

ed. Elisabeth Özdalga ISBN 91-86884-14-X

Contents:1. E Özdalga, Introduction2. S. Kahle, Johannes Kolmodin: His Youth, Political Thinking and Life with the Turks Reflected in His Letters to His Parents3. L.O. Eriksson, The Swedish Evangelical Mission as a Background to Johannes Kolmodin’s Life and Work4. E. Gebremedhin, Zanta Tsazzegan Hazzegan: Johannes Kolmodin’s Contribution to the Understanding of Eritrean Highland Culture5. C-G. Kolmodin, Friends and Compatriots: Sven Hedin, Sven Lidman and Nathan Söderblom6. I. Sanner, Contradictions of Modernity: Cultural Life in Sweden during the First Decades of the Twentieth Century7. T. Örn, Swedish Foreign Policy at the Time8. C-G. Kolmodin, An Ill-matched Couple: The Envoy Gustaf Wallenberg and the Dragoman Johannes Kolmodin9. E. Özdalga, Excerpts from the Diplomatic Reports10. C. Toll, Semitic Philology and Truth: An Aesthetic View of Scholarship by One of Johannes Kolmodin’s Successors

Vol. 15 (2005) Prospects for Democracy in Central Asia

ed. Birgit N. Schlyter ISBN 9186884166,

Contents:Part I: Political Pluralism and Civic Space1. S Blank, For a Transition to Democracy in Central Asia2. M. Kabiri, The Tajik Experience of a Multiparty System – Exception or Norm?3. M. Hall, Tajikistan at the Crossroads of Democracy and Authoritarianism4. P. Akçali, Democracy and Political Stability in Kyrgyzstan5. T. Hinnemo, The Blocked Road to Turkmen Democracy6. V.S. Khan, On the Problem of Revival and Survival of Ethnic minorities in Post-Soviet Central Asia7. B.N. Schlyter, The Karakalpaks and Other Language Minorities under Central Asian State Rule

Part III: Trends of Thought in the Public Discourse14. N. Kiliç-Schubel, Poetry and Political Dissent in Central Asia from a Historical Perspective: The Chaghatay Poet Turdi15. D. Azimova, Democratization as a Global Process and Democratic Culture at Central Asian Elite and Grass-Roots Levels16. M.Y. Liu, Post-Soviet Paternalism and Personhood: Why Culture Matters to Democratization in Central Asia17. B. Balci, Uzbek and Uyghur Communities in Saudi Arabia and Their Role in the Development of Wahhabism in Pre sent-Day Central Asia18. M. Sen, Turkish Islamist Entrepreneurs in Central Asia19. B.N. Schlyter and M. Tabor, Epilogue: Reflections on recent Elections

Vol. 14 (2005) The Role of the State in West Asia

ed. Bo Utas & Annika Rabo ISBN 9186884131

Contents:1. A. Rabo & B. Utas, The role of the state in West Asia2. K. Ulusoy, War, mobilisation and the economy3. R. Micallef, Turkish women write war4. Ö. Z. Oktav, A brief survey of Turkish-Iranian relations during the second half of the 1990's5. B. Turam, What does the secular state have to do with revivalist Islam? The Turkish case and the Gülen movement6. H. Ahmadzadeh, Traces of statelesness in the Kurdish novel7. P. Sluglett, The urban bourgeoisie and the colonial state: understanding current Syrian policy towards Hatay8. B Isaksson & A Lahdo, Reflections on the linguistic situation in Anatolia and Northern Syria from a Semitist's perspective9. A Rabo, Aleppo traders and the Syrian state10. J. Amid & A Hadjikhani, The state, technological capacities and technical exchange in Iran11. H. Bani-Shoraka, Language policy and language planning: Some definitions12. C. Jahani, State control and its impact on languages in Balochistan13. E. Melander, State manipulation or nationalist ambition? Assessing the causes of the Nagorno-Karabakh war14. M. Kobaidze & K. Vamling, The balance of languages in post-soviet Georgia

Vol. 13 (2005) Interaction and Isolation in Late Byzantine Culture

ed. Jan Olof Rosenqvist ISBN 1850439443

Contents:1. B Kiilerich, Aesthetic Aspects of Palaiologan Art in Constantinople: Some Problems2. Ø. Hjort, “Oddities” and “Refinements”: Aspects of Architecture, Space and Narrative in the Mosaics of Kariye Camii3. K. Hult, Theodore Metochites as a Literary Critic4. R. Gothóni, Mount Athos during the Last Centuries of Byzantium5. H. Torp, A Consideration of the Wall-Paintings of the Metropolis at Mistra6. S. Sande, The Petropigi Fortress: A Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Statio on the Via Egnatia7. E. Balicka-Witakowska, The Holy Face of Edessa on the Frame of the Volto Santo of Genoa; the Literary and Pictorial Sources8. B. Bydén, “Strangle Them with These Meshes of Syllogisms!”: Latin Philosophy in Greek Translations of the Thirteenth Century9. C. Troelsgård, Tradition and Transformation in Late Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Chant

Vol. 11 (2002) Autonomy and Dependence in the Family

Patterns of autonomy and interdependenceC. Kagitcibasi, Cross cultural perspectives on family changeG. Kyle, Married and degraded to legal minority: The Swedish married woman during the emancipationperiod, 1858-1921R. Liljeström, The strongest bond on trialA-K. Kollind, What the history of family counselling has to say about family relationsS. Bastug, Household and family in contemporary Turkey: An historical perspectiveS. Erder, Urban migration and reconstruction of the kinship networks. The case of IstanbulCouples, children and families in pictures

Fairness and equityM. Bäck-Wiklund, The family and the welfare state: A route to de-familializationU. Björnberg & A-K. Kollind, Equality - a contested conceptT. Einarsdottir, Who rules in the core of the family?D. Sunar, Change and continuity in the Turkish middle class familyH. Bolak, Family work in working class households in TurkeyR. Liljeström & E. Özdalga, Epilogue: Seeing oneself through the eyes of the other

Vol. 10 (2001) Sufism music and society in Turkey and the Middle East

Contents:Part I: Tasavvuf and musicA. Schimmel. The role of music in Islamic mysticism

Part II: Method and aestheticsD. Österberg, General socio- musicological concepts: Expression, structure, and contextA. Shiloah, Patterns of change and continuity in liturgical and ritual musicA. Hammarlund, Sacral, secular or sacred? An essay on music and aesthetic emancipation

Part III: Structure and evolutionW. Feldman, Structure and evolution of the Mevlevi Ayin: the case of the third SelâmI. Evrim Binbas, music and Samâ' of the Mavlaviyya in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries: origins, ritual and formationsE. Seroussi, From the court and Tarikat to the synagogue: Ottoman art music and Hebrew sacred songs

Part IV: Change and continuity in the modern eraC. Behar, The technical modernization of Turkish Sufi music: The case of the DurakO. Tekelioglu, An inner history of "Turkish music revolution"-demise of a music magazineN. Karakayali, An introduction to the history of music debates in TurkeyN. Clayer, Tasavvuf, music and social change in the Balkans

Part V: Sufi music and the mediaJ. During, Sufi music and rites in the era of mass reproduction techniques and culture

Vol. 9 (1999) Naqshbandis in Western and Central Asia

Change and Continuity

Contents:1. H. Algar, From Kashghar to Eyüp: The lineages and legacy of Sheikh Abdullah Nidai2. I. Togan, The Khafi, jahri controversy in Central Asia revisited3. J-A Gross, The Waaf of Khoja 'Ubayd Allah Ahrâr in nineteenth century Central Asia: A preliminary study of the Tsarist record4. B. Abu-Manneh, A note on "Rashahat-i 'Ain al-Hayay" in the nineteenth century5. I. Ortayli, The policy of the Sublime-porte towards Naqshbandis and other Tariqas during the Tanzimat period6. V. Schubel, Post-Soviet hagiography and the reconstruction of the Naqshbandi tradition in contemporary Uzbekistan7. F. Shakely, The Naqshbandi sheikhs of Hawraman and the heritage of Khaliddiyya-Mujaddidiyya in Kurdistan8. L. Stenberg, Naqshbandiyya in Damascus: Strategies to establish and strengthen the order in a changing society9. B. Utas, The Naqshbandiyya of Afghanistan on the eve of the 1978 copu d'état10. H. Yavuz, The matrix of modern Turkish Islamic movements: The Naqshbandi Sufi order11. F. Atacan, A portrait of a Naqshbandi sheikh in modern Turkey12. K. Özal, Twenty years with Mehmed Zahid Kotku: A personal story

Contents:1. I. Mélikoff, Bektashi/Kizilbas: Historical bipartition and its consequences2. E. Cornell, On Bektashism in Bosnia.3. D. Shankland, Anthropology and ethnicity: The place of ethnography in the new Alevi movement.4. K. Vorhoff, Academic and journalistic publications on the Alevi and Bektashi of Turkey5. F. Bilici, The function of Alevi-Bektashi theology in modern Turkey6. R. Cakir, Political Alevism versus political Sunnism: Convergences and divergences7. H. Rittersberger-Tilic, Development and reformulation of a returnee identity as Alevi8. R. Camuroglu, Alevi revivalism in Turkey9. F. Bozkurt, State-community relations in the restructuring of Alevism10. I. Ortayli, Ottoman modernisation and sabetaism.11. J. During, A critical survey on Ahl-e Haqq studies in Europe and Iran12. J. Skovgaard-Petersen, Taqiya or civil religion? Druze religious specialists in the framework of the Lebanese confessional state13. A. Layish, The Druze religious will as a political instrument14. M. Aringberg-Laanatza, Alevis in Turkey-Alawites in Syria: Similarities and differences15. T. Olsson, The gnosis of mountaineers and townspeople. The religion of the Syrian Alawites, or the Nusairis16. C. Raudvere, Urban visions and religious communities: Access and visibility17. T. Olsson, Epilogue: The scripturalization of Ali-oriented religions

Vol. 7 (1997) Civil Society Democracy and the Muslim World

Contents:1. B. Beckman, Explaining democratization, notes on the concept of civil society2. I. Sunar, Civil society and Islam3. S.J. Al-Azm, Is Islam secularizable4. B. Tibi, The cultural underpinning of civil society in Islamic civilization: Islam and democracy - bridges between the civilizations.5. S.E. Ibrahim, From Taliban to Erbakan, The case of Islam, civil society and democracy6. G. Therborn, Beyond civil society: Democratic experiences and their relevance to the "Middle East"7. M. Sariolghalam, Prospects for civil society in the Middle East: An analysis of cultural impediments8. L. Köker, National identity and state legitimacy: Contradictions of Turkey's democratic experience9. E. Özdalga, Civil society and its enemies: Reflections on a debate in the light of recent developments within the Islamic student movement in Turkey10. E. Özbudun, Civil society and democratic consolidation in Turkey11. Å. Lundgren, The European Union as a democracy-promoter12. I. Brandell, Labour, civil society and democratization in North Africa13. O. Törnquist, Civil society and divisive politicisation: experiences from popular efforts at democratisation in Indonesia

Vol. 4 (1993) Aspects of late Antiquity and early Byzantium

Contents:1. H. Montgomery, The parting of the ways: Byzantium and It-aly in the fifth century2. B. Utas, Byzantium seen from Sasanian Iran3. J. Retsö, The road to Yarmuk: The Arabs and the fall of the Roman power in the Middle East4. R. Holthoer, Byzantine Egypt: Cultures in collision5. W. Witakowski, Syrian monophysite propaganda in the fifth to seventh centuries6. A. Hultgård, Armenia in change and crisis, The Byzantine im-pact7. S. Sande, The icon and its origin in Graeco-Roman portraiture8. B. Kiilerich, Sculpture in the round in the early Byzantine pe-riod: Constantinople and the east9. Ø. Hjort, Augustus Christianus-Livia Christiana: Sphragis and Roman portrait sculpture10. H. Torp, Thessalonique paléochrétienne: Une esquisse11. L. Rydén, Gaza, Emesa and Constantinople: Late ancient cities in the light of hagiography12. J.O. Rosenqvist, Asia Minor on the threshold of the Middle Ages: Hagiographical glimpses from Lycia and Galatia13. G. af Hällström, The duties of an emperor according to Justin-ian I14. A. Berger, Überlegungen zur frühbyzantinischen Stadtplanung in Konstantinopel15. P-J Nordhagen, The mosaics of the Great palace of Constan-tinople: A note on an archaeological puzzle

Vol. 3 (1991) Prints from Kashghar

The printing office of the Swedish mission in Eastern Turkestan. History and production, with an attempt at a bibliography by Gunnar Jarring. 140 p., ISBN 91-86884-04-2

Contents:1. The origin and growth of the Swedish Mission in Eastern Turkestan2. The literary activities of the Swedish Mission3. The printing-office during the Eastern Turkestan revolution of the 1930’s4. Unfinished business5. Bibliography of publications printed in Kashghar6. Appendix: publications printed in Kashghar7. Glossary of words occurring in the titles and elsewhere in the text8. Index of titles in Arabic script9. Index of personal names10. List of references11. Abbrevations